Foreign Corruption

Foreign Corruption
FILE - Defendant Pierre Falcone arrives at the Paris courthouse for the verdicts in a major trial involving charges of arms trafficking and high-level bribes to Angola, in this Oct. 27 2009 file photo taken in Paris. The Angolan arms dealer, now in a French jail, was able to pay $9.6 million for an Arizona home in 2000 and maintained U.S. bank accounts handling some $60 million in transactions between 1999 and 2007, according to a report written by the Senate Homeland Security subcommittee on investigations. Several of the U.S. lawyers, real estate agents and bankers involved in the financial transactions have been called to a hearing Thursday Feb. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)